7th November After a 14 week chart run and reaching number 3 "The Danish Collection" is back in the 'Officielle Hitliste Danmark' at number 67.

4th November  The first bootleg from the 'Never Say Never' tour has been issued - "Never Say Never From Amsterdam" (click here to see picture).  The CD includes reasonably good quality recordings of "Never Say Never" and Solid Gold".  

3rd November  The "Don't Stop" album has been released in Poland with a different sleeve design (click here to see picture) through Spectrum Music Poland.  

2nd November The new album (provisionally titled "Never Say Never") is now not due to be released until September next year.

30th October  The release date for the "Rockers Rollin' - Quo In Time 1972-2000" CD set has been put back to the 19th November.

29th October  Another Quo MP3 CDRom has appeared in Russia (click here to see picture).

26th October  Two songs from the new album - "Never Say Never" (tipped to be the new single next year) and "Solid Gold" - were previewed at the first concert of the 'Never Say Never' tour last night in Denmark.

17th October  The track listing for the "Rockers Rollin' - Quo In Time 1972-2000" CD set has now been finalised.   The only major change to the provisional track listing is that - due to copyright reasons - the version of "Don't Waste My Time" is now to be from the Reading Festival in 1973 rather than the originally planned BBC radio concert recording.

12th October  "Old Time Rock And Roll" has moved up to the number 15 position in the Spanish Cadena Radio play chart.

10th October  Universal Music in Germany have released a 3 CD box set 'best of' Quo compilation (with 41 songs) with the title "Rockin' All Over The World" (548 910-2) click here to see picture.

9th October  The German 3 CD Quo box set "Whatever You Want" (Delta 55 279) is to be released in the UK next week.

8th October  There is a new Quo CD compilation issued in South Africa with the title "Masters Of Rock" (not to be confused with the LP with the same title released there in 1986).  "Old Time Rock And Roll" has moved up to number 17 in the Spanish Cadena Radio play chart.

7th October  A new Russian compilation CD with the title "Hit Collection" has been released (click here to see picture).

29th September  The "Famous In The Last Century" album has moved up to number 20 (from 22 last week) in the Swedish charts.  "Old Time Rock And Roll" stayed at the number 20 position in the Spanish Cadena Radio chart.

26th September A French Quo limited edition CD compilation has been issued with the title "Les Talents Du Sicle" (Talents of the Century) (French Universal Music 548 326-2).  The CD has the same track listing as the Dutch "Classic Status Quo" released last year (click here to see picture).

24th September The "Rockers Rollin'" anthology set release date has been put back to the 11th November according to the official website (although the track listing they have shown has a few mistakes).

23rd September  A new Quo CD compliation has been released in Holland with the title "Again And Again" (Universal Music 586 480-2).  The CD has the same track listing as "The Essential Status Quo Volume 3" CD from last year.

22nd September The "Famous In The Last Century" album is number 22 in the Swedish charts and "Old Time Rock And Roll" has moved up to number 20 in the Spanish Cadena Radio chart.

21st September  "Old Time Rock And Roll" is number 28 in the Spanish Cadena Radio chart.  The "Famous In The Last Century" album is due to be released in Spain (currently only import copies are available) shortly by the MUXXIC label who acquired the rights from Universal Music. 

20th September The "Rockin' 'N' Rollin'" CD (click here to see picture) was released on Monday.  It is another 'covers' compilation (being made up of songs from the "Don't Stop" and "Famous In The Last Century" albums) and has the same track listing as the "Got You Covered" CD released in August.

19th September "The Danish Collection" is still in their charts - now number 61.

13th September  A promo CD single with "Old Time Rock And Roll" (MUXXIC 0162.2) has been issued to Spanish radio stations (click here to see picture). 

8th September Another budget price Quo compilation CD - "Rockin' 'N' Rollin'" (Music Club MCCD 469) is due out on the 17th September.

7th September  Universal Music have issued a 10 track special CD (QUOBOX1) to radio stations to help promote the release of the "Rockers Rollin" anthology set in October.  The tracks are: "Paper Plane", "Roll Over Lay Down - Live", "Is There A Better Way - Live", "Rockers Rollin", "What You're Proposing", "Late Last Night", "Little Dreamer", "Mysteries From The Ball", "Back On My Feet" and "Roll Over Beethoven" (click here to see picture). 

4th September  The "Anniversary Waltz" video has been issued as a DVD (Panorama Entertainment PMDVD-107872) and a double 'Video CD' in Hong Kong (Panorama Entertainment PMVCD-107872) for the Chinese market (click here to see picture).  Video CDs can be played either on a VCD player or on P/Cs using a program like QuickVCD.  

29th August  A new Russian Quo compliation CD has surfaced in Europe with the title "Bc 3oaoto Mnpa" (All gold of the world).  The CD is made up of songs from the "Ain't Complaining", "Thirsty Work", "In The Army Now" and Don't Stop" albums - together with the singles "Wild Side Of Life" and "Dear John" (click here to see picture). 

28th August  The German budget label Delta Music have released a 3 CD Quo box set with the title "Whatever You Want".  The set is made up of their three Quo CD releases "Rockin' All Over The World", "Status Quo" and "Tune To The Music".

24th August Universal Music have now published a provisional track listing for the "Rockers Rollin' - Quo In Time 1972-2000" anthology set and confirmed that the release date is to be 15th October.  The set will also include a 48 page booklet written by Quo expert Dave Oxley and a forward by Rick Parfitt.

22nd August  Castle Music have realised that their recent "Down The Dustpipe - 70s Pye Collection" release did not include the intended alternative versions of "In My Chair" and "Need Your Love" {that had originally issued in Mexico} and have repressed the CD.  Future copies should now inlude the correct recordings. 

18th August  The track listing for the "Rockers Rollin" set has nearly been finalised.  Universal Music are planning to give the release a 'big push' (shock Quo release with promotion) and are producing a ten  track sampler CD (starting with the first song on the set "Paper Plane" and finishing with the last "Roll Over Beethoven") for radio stations. 

17th August  Universal Music have now confirmed that long awaited (and much talked about) anthology set is due to be released on the 15th October - with the title "Rockers Rollin' - the Status Quo Anthology".  The 4 CD set is to be a mixture of the band's best known songs together with a selection of both rare and previously unissued material.  According to the record company obvious rare tracks like "Calling The Shots", "Better Times" and "Heavy Daze" are to be included - with previously unissued 'live' recordings for example "Roadhouse Blues" (from 1975), "Cream Of The Crop", "Proud Mary" and  - and a number of previously unissued songs like "Cadillac Ranch", "Another Game In Town" and "Bad Company".    

16th August  This weeks (once again) unconfirmed rumour is that Quo are close to signing a record deal with the Sanctuary label.  

15th August  A new Quo budget price compilation CD album "Got You Covered" (Crimson CRIMCD315) was released on the 6th August.  The CD is made up of tracks from the "Don't Stop" and "Famous In The Last Century" albums (click here to see picture).  

14th August "The Danish Collection" is still doing well in their charts moving back up to the number 7 position (from number 11 last week).

7th August  The first bootleg CDs with Quo's Hyde Park concert have started to appear.

5th August  There are unconfirmed rumours that Quo have signed to Columbia Records for their next album.

3rd August  Two CD albums featuring John Coghlan have been released in Italy - "The Best Of Status Quo Performed by the Original Member John Coghlan" (DV More Records CDDV 6507) (click here to see picture) and "John Coghlan Performs The Best Of Status Quo" (DV More Record CDDV 6508).  Both CDs have 12 songs - although the tracks "Whatever You Want", "Roadhouse Blues", "Paper Plane" and "Down The Dustpipe" appear on both.

29th July "The Danish Collection" is now number 7 in their charts (click here to see picture).

24th July The new Castle Music Quo CDs were released yesterday. Although they are very well packaged there is no previously unissued material (and the promised alternative versions of "In My Chair" and "Need Your Love" {originally issued in Mexico} were not included).

21st July  "The Danish Collection" has slipped down to number four in the charts.

15th July "The Danish Collection" has moved up to number 3 in the charts.

14th July The new Danish Quo 'best of' double CD release with the (appropriate) title "The Danish Collection" (Universal 556 912-2) entered the charts at the number 9 position last week.  The CD is made up of a selection of singles from "Paper Plane" through to "All Around My Hat" plus the album tracks "Dirty Water", "Raining In My Heart", "Get Out Of Denver", "Safety Dance" and "When I'm Dead And Gone".

13th July  The (new) Castle Music Quo "Down The Dustpipe - 70s Pye Collection" (CMRCD273) CD is also due for release on the 23rd July.

12 July More details of the 6 CD Single set from Castle Music - due out on the 23rd July - have been published.  The "Singles Box Set" (CMKBX272) will be made up of the following Pye singles "Down The Dustpipe", "In My Chair", "Tune To The Music", "Mean Girl", Gerdundula" and "Spinning Wheel Blues" - each with a European release sleeve (click here to see picture).

10 July  The first bootleg CD albums from concerts this year have started to tp appear - Dublin (24/4), Osnabrck (14/6) and Berlin (20/6).  4 July The project to issue all of Quo's classic albums from the 70s and 80s on CD has been put on hold until next year so as not to distract from the "Anthology" CD set.  The plan is still to release the CD albums with bonus tracks - for example the "If You Can't Stand The Heat" CD is likely to include 'live' songs from the period like "Backwater-Rockers Rollin'" and "Oh! What A Night" together with CD enhanced video (which you play on a P/C) of the album's two singles "Again And Again" and "Accident Prone".  

13 June  The March issue of Jukebox magazine (the French equivalent of Record Collector) included an excellent article on Quo covering the period of 1972 through to 1979 by French Quo fan Herv Colombet.

11 June The long awaited and much talked about "Anthology" 4CD set (of Quo Vertigo recorded material) is due to be released by Universal on the 2nd July. 

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